19 Dec 1985
THE QUEEN v. KWONG CHIU (D1) AND OTHERS
- Citation
- THE QUEEN v. KWONG CHIU (D1) AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC250/1985
The appeal of the 2nd Applicant (4th Defendant) is allowed because the trial judge materially misdirected the jury on corroboration of the accomplice's evidence by treating items dependent on the accomplice's testimony as if independently corroborative, a misdirection serious enough to have misled the jury; the summing-up was otherwise terse but not unfair, and the challenges to the 1st and 3rd Applicants' appeals failed because the statutory presumption under s.24 Cap. 238 and the absence of evidential matter in their favour left the jury with little alternative.